Paul Wesley Quotes

I've always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he's been in front of the camera. He doesn't have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise.

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

If you want to be a director, work with writers and find different ways of telling stories with film, then do a course. This way you can consolidate what you've learnt and use the course to go further.

A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

When I'm directing a movie, nothing else matters.

For me, learning about cinema and the craft and the art of it, through making films with great people, has been such a cool experience.

I love directing, and I will direct myself a few times.

Films are a director's medium. We're all stemming from the director.

Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.

Directing films is easier said than done. The job needs a lot of sensibility to put many things in place.

The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you know the film you see in your head.

I wanted to do a film for a while, but I never found a script that I felt I was going to be the right person for; because if you've never made a film, you're not taught how to make a film, and you feel like you lack skills.

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

I think that's the key to being a director: to be able to get the shot and move on quickly.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot.

Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.

If you are making a record, you are the one saying 'action', and you are the one saying 'cut,' and you have to be sure that the most interesting thing is not going on outside the frame.

Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

There are no great scripts - just great films.